FIX: Setting MSChart's AxisScale Type to Logarithmic Hangs VB

• Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions for Windows, version 6.0

SYMPTOMS

Setting the Plot.Axis(1).AxisScale.Type property of the MSChart control to Logarithmic causes Visual Basic 6.0 to hang.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3. For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Start a new Visual Basic 6.0 Standard EXE project. Form1 is created by default.



2. On the Project Menu, click Components. Select Microsoft Chart 6.0 Control (OLEDB) and click OK.



3. Add an MSChart control to Form1.



4. Add the following code to the General Declarations section of Form1:

   
   Private Sub Form_Click()
      MSChart1.Plot.Axis(1).AxisScale.Type = VtChScaleTypeLogarithmic
   End Sub 




5. Run the project. Click on Form1 and note that the project hangs.

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbservicepack kbCtrl kbVBp600bug kbGrpVB kbVS600sp2 kbVS600SP1 kbVS600sp3fix
Version : WINDOWS:6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug